Blasi v. Blasi

I concur in the results, but not in the decision as to the law in this case.

I agree that circuit court has no authority to direct district court to change the name of a child back to the name of the child’s father. Circuit court has appellate but not supervisory jurisdiction over district court.

*82Circuit court has no power to do indirectly what it cannot do directly. It has no authority to direct a divorced mother to return to the Jefferson District Court and petition that court to change the name of her child back to the name of the child’s father, because the effect of that is to direct…